“You could name the great stars of the silent screen who were finished; the great directors gone; the great title writers who were washed up. But remember this, as long as you live: the producers didn't lose a man. They all made the switch. That's where the great talent is.” MenLongMadeRememberNamesStarsLosesGoneTalentDirectorsSilentFinishedScreensProducersTitlesGreat Talent Author:Ernst Lubitsch
“I believe in talent. I know you're not supposed to believe in that anymore because you're supposed to believe if you just work hard you can do anything. That's how you succeed, maybe. But talent is something you're born with. You cannot acquire it by working hard, and you cannot lose it by lying around either.” IfsKnowsBelieveHardLyingI BelieveCan DoBornLosesTalentHard WorkSucceedI Believe InAcquire Author:Fran Lebowitz
“Many a good intention dies from inattention. If, through carelessness or indolence, or selfishness, a good intention is not put into effect, we have lost an opportunity, demoralized ourselves, and stolen from the pile of possible good. To be born and not fed, is to perish. To launch a ship and neglect it is to lose it. To have a talent and bury it, is to be a "wicked and slothful servant." For in the end we shall be judged, not alone by what we have done, but by what we could have done.” IfsEndsDoneDiesOpportunityLostBornLosesEffectsTalentIntentionShipsSelfishnessServantWickedFedsNeglectJudgedStolenNot AloneGood IntentionsIndolenceCarelessnessInattentionDemoralized Book:Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock Source: Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock
“I understand that actors lose their looks, they change over time, but people don't lose their talent. I think that, as people get older and the people who make the decisions get older, they don't like hiring people much older than them because it reminds them of their fathers, and they don't like telling people older than them what to do. It makes them uncomfortable. I think that happens a lot.” PeopleThinkingLooksHappensActorsFatherLosesDecisionTalentUncomfortableHiringChanges Over Time Author:Kurt Fuller
“I think nobody can explain why some people win and why some people lose. It really doesn't always have to do much with talent. It has to do with how you deal with pressure.” PeopleThinkingWinningLosesDealsTalentPressure Author:Howard Bryant
“We cannot hoard life as we can money. When a person tries to be a miser of his health, he usually makes himself miserable. Mental talents, if buried and not used, tend to deteriorate. Whoever would save his memory by not using it will lose it.” IfsTryingPersonsUsedLosesMemoriesTalentMiserableBuriedMisers Author:Ralph Washington Sockman
“Had I not gone through the ordeal, in more than one country, of landing a job, I would he tempted to lose patience over the number of letters pouring in from fellows who want me or someone else to hand them a job on a silver platter with a guarantee that they will receive the wonderful promotion their talents warrant.... But a tragic number of young men and even older men have a notion that it is not up to them to prosecute the bettering process. They look to someone else to perform the trick for them.” MenWantLooksCountryHandsJobsYoungProcessLosesNumbersGoneWonderfulTalentLettersFellowsNotionTricksYoung ManGuaranteesTragicSilverWant MeTemptedPromotionPouringLandingGuarantees ThatWarrantsOrdealsOlder ManSilver Platter Author:B. C. Forbes
“A talent is a combination of something you love a great deal and something you can lose yourself in - something that you can start at 9 o'clock, look up from your work and it's 10 o'clock at night.” LooksNightLosesDealsTalentCombinationClockLook UpLosing YourselfSomething You Love Author:George Lucas
“I think the definition of an artist is not necessarily tied into excellence or talent; an artist is somebody who, if you took away their freedom to make art, would lose their mind.” IfsThinkingMindArtArtistLosesTalentExcellenceDefinitionsTied Author:Richard Price
“Too often little attention is paid to individual talent. instead, education goes on dividing people according to their sex, and putting them in little feminine or masculine pigeonholes ... Girls are shielded and sometimes helped so much that they lose initiative and begin to believe the signs 'Girls don't' and 'Girls can't' which mark their paths... Consequently, it seems almost necessary to evolve different methods of instruction for them when they later take up the same subjects.” PeopleBelieveLittlesDifferentSometimesSeemsGirlIndividualSexWomenLosesAttentionPathSubjectsTalentGoes OnMarkPaidMethodEvolveAviationFeminineInstructionInitiativeMasculineDividingIndividual Talent Author:Amelia Earhart
“There's a tremendous loss of talent to businesses who cannot make room for their employees to attend to family responsibilities. It really amounts to corporate waste: They hire really talented women and then lose them because they can't find ways to keep them productive and content the minute they can't "lean in."” WayLosesLossRoomsResponsibilityMinutesTalentAmountWasteCorporateEmployeeProductiveFamily Responsibility Author:Anne-Marie Slaughter
“Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, therein lies your vocation. These two, your talents and the needs of the world, are the great wake up calls to your true vocation in life... to ignore this, is in some sense, is to lose your soul.” WorldNeedsTwoSoulLyingLosesTalentCrossesWake UpYour SoulVocationWake Up Call Author:Aristotle
“Everybody has talent and it's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is. A talent is a combination of something you love a great deal and something you can lose yourself in - something that you can start at 9 o'clock, look up from your work and it's 10 o'clock at night - and also something that you have a talent, not a talent for, but skills that you have a natural ability to do very well. And usually those two things go together.” WellsLooksTwoMatterTogetherMovingNightLosesNaturalAbilityDealsTalentSkillsCombinationClockLook UpTwo ThingsLosing YourselfSomething You LoveNatural Ability Author:George Lucas
“Failure is important because the first time you win (or lose), it could be luck, it could be timing, or it could be talent. It's only after you fail once or twice and learn to rely equally on thought, analysis, and anticipation-in addition to speed, talent, and execution-that you can really call yourself an entrepreneur ... In the long run, it's mind over muscle, strategy over strength, and a healthy perspective-not just a lot of perspiration-that make someone a real success in his or her business and in the equally important rest of his or her life.” MindFirstsLongImportantRealRunningWinningLosesFailingTalentPerspectiveHealthyFirst TimeLuckStrategyEntrepreneurSpeedAnalysisRelyMusclesAnticipationExecutionLong RunsTimingWin Or LoseReal SuccessPerspiration Author:Howard A. Tullman
“When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. (Reading this makes me wonder how much sooner man could have walked on the moon... had we listened to a child's fantasies. It is truly a pity that so many lose their gift of imagination to the steady hum of the status quo.)” MenChildrenReadingLosesImaginationWonderFantasyTalentMoonMethodPityConclusionSteadyStatus QuoAbsorbing Author:Albert Einstein